Pre-intermediate A2+ Get Ready for ielts

1 I really like 
playing computer games.
2
Children in my country don’t like 
going 
shopping.
3 My brother and I 
like 
going to museums.
4 I don’t 
like going for walks.
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Get Ready for IELTS: Speaking

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Unit 4
Part 1: 
Language developm ent
Vocabulary: Places in cities
Exercise 1 
A harbour
B shopping mall
C museum
Exercise 2 
Model answers:
harbour: go on a boat trip, have a coffee 
shopping mall: buy clothes, have a coffee 
museum: have a coffee, see an exhibition
Exercise 3
Model answers:
1 caf§, hotel (restaurant)
2 beach, river (harbour)
3 beach, cafe, gallery, theatre (cinema)
4 skyscraper (office)
5 bridge, skyscraper (hill)
Vocabulary: Describing cities 
Exercise 4
1 c 
4 d
2 a 
5 b
3 e
Exercise 5
Model answers:
1 modern, beautiful
2 airport, mountains
3 lots of tourist attractions
4 traditional food, museums
5 the weather is good
Unit 4 
Hometown
Pronunciation: Syllables and word stress 
Exercise 7
one syllable: beach, bridge, park 
two syllables: cafe, hotel, river 
three syllables: factory, gallery, skyscraper, 
theatre
Exercise 8
two syllables: cafe, hotel, river 
three syllables: factory, gallery, skyscraper, 
theatre
Grammar: 
There is/There are
Exercise 9
There is (a) museum, (lots of) traffic 
There isn’t (a) beach, (any) accommodation 
There are (some) shopping malls, (lots of) people, 
markets 
There aren’t (any) harbours
Exercise 10
1 are
2 isn’t
3 are not
4 Are
5 No
6 are
7 aren’t
Exercise 11
1 near
ro famous
3 got
4 skyscrapers
5 bridge
6 favourite
7 can
00 traditional
9 meet
10 are
Answer key
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P a rt 2 : 
S k ills d e v e lo p m e n t
Exercise 1
Good: The grammar is correct and the vocabulary 
is appropriate for the topic.
Bad: The answer is too short for Part 1.
Exercise 2 
Possible answers:
• near the border, population 100,000
• clean, exciting, friendly
• museums, theatres
• very friendly, people always kind
met me, and we drove to Dubai. It was maybe 
one hour until the outskirts, then the traffic was 
very bad. In Dubai, you have to take the car 
everywhere. We relaxed and went to the shopping 
malls, they are great, and the beaches. We 
chatted mainly. We haven’t seen each other for 
long time. And we went skiing! In the shopping 
mall there is a slope. It was interesting because 
it has many contrasts, because you have lots of 
poor people and lots of very, very rich people. 
There is no middle class there and the places 
you go, there is gold, too much gold and, on the 
other hand there are many people living there, 
they are immigrants.
Exercise 4
The answer is too fast. There are some pauses. 
There are no grammar errors. Some words are 
repeated, e.g. capital city, I like, people.
Exercise 7
• description of my country
• other cities I like
The topic card does not ask for this information 
and it will waste time.
P a rt 3 : 
E xam p r a c t ic e